September 11th, 2008

News to know: iTunes 8 sneaky upgrade; AMD; CTIA; Text pricing

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:00 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod Touch, Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iTunes, CTIA, Digital Music

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:

Ed Bott: An inside look at Apple’s sneaky iTunes 8 upgrade.

• Gallery Tour: Sneaky iTunes install, step by step (right)
  
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iTunes 8 can cause CD/DVD drives disappear + possible fix
• Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?
• Jason O’Grady: Firmware 2.1 arrives for iPod touch
• Microphone support comes to the new iPod touch and classic
• Apple’s new commitment to accessibility
• New iPods not eligible for ‘back to school’ discount
• iPod touch and nano disassembled (updated)

Mary Jo Foley: High-end Windows Server 2008 launch on tap

• Oslo and Live Mesh: Will the two platforms ever meet?
• Joe McKendrick: OMG, Microsoft joins OMG

CTIA coverage:

Matthew Miller: Google launches Google Mobile App for BlackBerry devices

• Sprint announces HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, is there really going to be a Touch HD?
• Get hands-free directions sent wirelessly to your Dash Express GPS device
• Foley: Nokia joins Apple as an active Microsoft ActiveSync backer
• Andrew Nusca: ‘Flip,’ 3G ‘Bold’ Blackberrys announced
• VentureBeat: Carriers begin to believe in data revenue, as Android’s puzzle pieces come together

Ryan Naraine: Google closes hole in Single Sign-On service

• Adam O’Donnell: Obama sex tape? Not exactly

Google: The future of searchDeb Perelman: Whoops! Apparently, we haven’t mastered email yet.

GigaOm: 5 Reasons to Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley

Phil Wainewright: Cloud rising

Joe Brockmeier: Picking the Fleas from Community

TechRepublic: Create a custom backup tool with Vista’s Robocopy

Jennifer Leggio: New Facebook goes live, old Facebook dies

• Move over Generations X and Y - Grandma’s on MySpace

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD slashes prices of Phenom X3 CPUs

• AMD introduces ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series graphics cards. Gallery (right)
  
• NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuit

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Text message pricing: Is Sen. Kohl fighting the wrong battle?

• Richard Koman: Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?

Ryan Stewart: Jibdee launches: a consumer-centric take on the webtop concept

• Andrew Mager: Bojam is an open source Wikipedia for music creation
• TechCrunch50: Day 3
• Larry Dignan: Startups: Where’s the business technology?

The Lede: A Stock-Killer Fueled by Algorithm After Algorithm

AP: Apple senior execs settle options case for $14M

Christopher Dawson: How do you sell green IT in education?

Guardian: Is Apple’s Genius a music subscription service in disguise?

Sean Portnoy: Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation Controller

Dana Blankenhorn: Byetta and Januvia in battle of press releases

• Open source and military procurement don’t mix

British MP risks arrest for Segway use

Richard Koman: O3B satellites could bring real net access to rest of world

• The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible
• Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success

John Carroll: The moral hazard of Microsoft-branded PCs

Microsoft on IE8–speed not top priority

Boomtown: Yahoo Opens Itself Up Tomorrow-Literally

IT services rates under pressure over economy